Posts Tagged ‘doctor’

Chiropractic Care…well, sort of

Okay, so I broke down and went to a Chiropractor. Now I’ve been to Chiropractors before. In fact, I believe they do good work and can heal certain muscular, joint and alignment issues. But after my husband’s constant barrage of scientific studies citing all kinds of devastating chiropractic mishaps, I’d pretty much sworn off them [...]

Read the article

Confirmation craze

I know times are tough. I know Doctors have been given the shaft. They’re getting squeezed by the government. They’re getting paid less and less by insurance companies. Patients are suing them over mis-diagnosed hang nails. It’s not easy. Believe me, with a husband in the biz, I see the problems within the healthcare industry [...]

Read the article

He woke me! He really woke me!!!

My mom, on the other hand awoke startled, bolting upright like an overdone pop-tart shooting out of a burning toaster. She’d accost you with a hysterical “What’s wrong?” or a frantic “Who died?” It was just…stressful to wake my mom.

Read the article

The daily rhythms of life in the NICU

Julianna Lyddon, M.C. is a Paradise Valley therapist and the author of Raising A Happy Spirit: The Inner Wisdom of Parenting. She also produces a weekly talk radio show online. The show is on every Friday from 1-2pm Arizona time at toginet.com. You can stream it live or listen to podcasts of past shows. Lyddon’s guest [...]

Read the article

Shhh! I’m trying to listen to myself!

But somehow I conveniently forgot about brain genetics when I decided to have children. I guess if I’d realized that my sweet young babies would one day grow up to battle the same mental demons that have pursued me with such unwavering commitment all these years, I might have thought twice about having them.

Read the article

Therapy queues

…You stand around a lot, wait for something allegedly great to happen, and then, you pay through the nose for whatever it is you thought would solve the problems that ultimately end up working themselves out in spite of your consistent interference.

Read the article

Don’t fear the fever

The primary goal of giving a child antipyretics, or medications to reduce a fever, such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen should be to help a sick child feel more comfortable, not simply to maintain a “normal” temperature.

Read the article

In defense of the peanut!

Poor parents. We’re so misunderstood. We’re just trying to do the right thing and protect our kids from a devastating legume and then someone, well, a lot of someones actually, comes out and throws a bunch of annoying facts around and we have to face the truth. We are responsible for the plethora of peanut anaphylaxis plaguing our offspring.

Read the article

Cough Suppressing

Eli’s home sick today and I’m feeling pretty cruddy myself. I just got over a two-month bout of pneumonia and am more than a little bummed that I feel it reasserting itself. I have my post antibiotic doc appt. at 1:00 and since I’m still feeling bad, I figure I should go. So I pack [...]